Investigating Evolving Discourses On Human Rights in the Digital Age
Open Access
- 18 May 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in International Communication Gazette
- Vol. 72 (4-5), 359-378
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1748048510362618
Abstract
This article investigates how human rights in the digital age can be considered as an overall frame accommodating fundamental rights and freedoms that relate to communication processes, and related challenges, in societies worldwide. The article brings together different disciplinary backgrounds (communication studies, linguistics and sociology of networks) and complementary empirical analyses of the content, structure and relevance of evolving discourses concerning human rights in the digital age. In doing so, the article defines and adopts a constructivist and communicative approach to the study of world politics, and details its relevance in order to assess the evolution of normative standards concerning communication as a human right in the transnational context.Keywords
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